Do Mac computers support Wi-Fi Aware?

macOS doesn’t currently support Wi-Fi Aware. Normally I’d suggest you file an enhancement request for such support, but in this case I can assure you that the Wi-Fi Aware team fully understands the desire for this.

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Yep. Lemme explain why you’re seeing what you’re seeing.

Mac Catalyst is a technology that allows anyone with an iOS app to create an equivalent macOS app. To make that job easier, most iOS-only frameworks are available to Mac Catalyst. However, that doesn’t mean that the framework will do anything useful. Wi-Fi Aware already has an API to determine whether the current device is supported, namely the wifiAware feature, and if you query that on the Mac then’ll you’ll find that it’s not present.

Keep in mind that the Wi-Fi Aware framework itself has to be present on macOS because we support the iOS Apps on Mac feature, where users can run existing iOS app binaries on their Apple silicon Mac. If the Wi-Fi Aware framework wasn’t present, any iOS app that depends on Wi-Fi Aware wouldn’t even launch on the Mac.

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